Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

I grow garlic too and it usually does well, as do onions. I'm not familiar with elephant garlic. Is this native to USA? My chive patch ebbs and flows depending on the weather. For me it is essential for potato salad.
Its too cold here for olives otherwise I would grow that wonderful trio: garlic, olives & tomatoes. I just have to pick up olives from the deli along with Mozzarella.

I forgot to say that olive trees grow quite well out here. The fruiting kind have been banned for new plantings because their polin is a major source of allergy problems, but there are so many that have been growing here for years that it doesn't make any difference. My neighbor has a fruiting olive and it leaves olives all over his yard, as well as, the birds dropping them everywhere. I think I do have information somewhere on how to pickle them, but I'm not up for that. The funny thing is when the people who don't understand olives go running up to one of the many olive trees around, and start trying to eat the olives streight off the tree. Ick! It's lik our sour orange trees lining the roads and so on, not so tasty.

Ehh, what can I say, I took a bite of that bar of soap when I was a kid, so live and learn.

[robthehiker]

My neighbor has a fruiting olive and it leaves olives all over his yard, as well as, the birds dropping them everywhere. I think I do have information somewhere on how to pickle them, but I'm not up for that.

You pickle birds? Interesting but I'll stick to pickled eggs. Hmm, I guess eggs are just really, really young birds...